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  Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.

  Milton Friedman

  Party, Pie, Debt

  Milton Friedman, Rose Friedman (1990). “Free to Choose: A Personal Statement”, p.31, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Those who give up their liberty for more security neither deserve liberty nor security.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Giving Up, Security, Deserve

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• Powerful government tends to draw into it people with bloated egos, people who think they know more than everyone else and have little hesitance in coercing their fellow man. Or as Nobel Laureate Friedrich Hayek said, "in government, the scum rises to the top".

  Walter E. Williams

  Powerful, Men, Thinking

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• Republicans campaign like Libertarians and govern like Democrats.

  Harry Browne

  Campaigns, Libertarian, Republican

  "Liberty A to Z". Book by Harry Browne (p. 151), 2004.

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• He who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Law, Vices, Reform

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• There is no limit to the ingenuity of man if it is properly and vigorously applied under conditions of peace and justice.

  Winston Churchill

  Men, Justice, Genius

  Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

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• To say that a bad government must be established for fear of anarchy is really saying that we should kill ourselves for fear of dying.

  Richard Henry Lee

  Fear, Government, Political

  Richard Henry Lee (1825). “Memoir of the Life of Richard H. Lee, and His Correspondence with the Most Distinguished Men in America and Europe”

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• I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Believe, Should Have, Libertarian

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1847). “Democracy in America”

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• If you ruin your life, you will pay the price of rehabilitating yourself ... We are not punished for our sins, but by them. Liberty means responsibility.

  Mike Cloud

  Mean, Responsibility, Pay The Price

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• Historically, much of the motivation for public schooling has been to stifle variety and institute social control.

  Hugh Jackman

  Motivation, Libertarian, Social

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• Patriotism means loving our country, not the government.

  Mike Cloud

  Country, Mean, Government

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• Conservatives and liberals are kindred spirits as far as government spending is concerned. First, let's make sure we understand what government spending is. Since government has no resources of its own, and since there's no Tooth Fairy handing Congress the funds for the programs it enacts, we are forced to recognize that government spending is no less than the confiscation of one person's property to give it to another to whom it does not belong - in effect, legalized theft.

  Walter E. Williams

  Government, Giving, Teeth

  "All it takes is guts". Book by Walter E. Williams, 1987.

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• The angels and the devils are definitely within us, not within the machines we use.

  Michael Dertouzos

  Angel, Devil, Machines

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• It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.

  Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

  World, Libertarian, Ruins

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• In every State, the government is nothing but a permanent conspiracy on the part of the minority against the majority, which it enslaves and fleeces.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Government, Majority, Minorities

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• What is so bad about big government? My indictment of big government is that it is bad because it attacks liberty, prosperity, progress, harmony, and morality. Thanks to big government, we have significantly less of all of those good things than we would if we had been able to keep government right-sized. Big government is cancerous. Like a cancer, it hurts the body and tends to spread, doing more and more harm as it grows. It is time for some radical surgery.

  George Leef

  Hurt, Cancer, Government

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• Government should stay the hell out of people's business.

  Barry Goldwater

  Government, People, Libertarian

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• Politicians, like bombers, seldom see their victims.

  Donald J. Boudreaux

  Bombers, Libertarian, Politician

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• The gentle government that promises to hold your hand as you cross the street refuses to let go on the other side.

  Theodore J. Forstmann

  Letting Go, Government, Hands

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• But what more oft in nations grown corrupt,
  And by their vices brought to servitude,
  Than to love bondage more than liberty,
  Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty.

  John Milton

  Apathy, Ease, Bondage

  "The Poetical Works. A New Ed. Carefully Rev. from the Text of Thomas Newton. With Illustr. by William Harvey".

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  The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.

  John Stuart Mill

  War, Power, Libertarian Party

  On Liberty ch. 1 (1859)

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• Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

  Thomas Paine

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  The American Crisis, 12 Sept. 1777

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• The American heritage was one of individual liberty, personal responsibility and freedom from government ... Unfortunately ... that heritage has been lost. Americans no longer have the freedom to direct their own lives ... Today, it is the government that is free - free to do whatever it wants. There is no subject, no issue, no matter ... that is not subject to legislation.

  Harry Browne

  Responsibility, Issues, Government

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  Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.

  Samuel Adams

  Rights, Together, Firsts

  Samuel Adams (1946). “Samuel Adams: selections from his writings”

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• Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Economic, Economy, Natural

  Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.6, Cosimo, Inc.

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